Posts tagged tort reform

• Constitutionality of Damage Caps Comes Under Scrutiny in Florida

  Mike Ferrara | November 22, 2011 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 2003, faced with what the American Medical Association was calling a “crisis” of doctors fleeing the state due to an overabundance of “frivolous” malpractice suits, the...

• FALSE: Texas Gained 21,000 Doctors Because of Tort Reform

  Mike Ferrara | August 26, 2011 2:32 PM | 4 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Republicans everywhere, including presidential hopeful/George W. Bush doppelganger Rick Perry, like to claim that tort reform, and malpractice reform in particular, is a great way to reduce health...

• Impeach the "Corporate" Supreme Court Justices?

  Camryn Hansen | July 27, 2011 5:36 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a bitterly divided 5-4 decision to overturn the government ban on corporate contributions to candidate elections. The majority, consisting of justices...

• Medical Malpractice Caps Only Protect Bad Doctors and Rich Insurance Companies

  Camryn Hansen | July 17, 2011 4:54 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In his recent op-ed discussing the malpractice caps in his state of West Virginia, trial attorney Paul Farrell Jr. likens the caps to protections for drunk drivers. “Protecting bad doctors...

• Don’t Let Mega-Corporations Take Away Your Right to a Trial by Jury

  Mike Ferrara | June 22, 2011 4:42 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It is a fact that multi-billion dollar corporations take advantage of average individuals every single day for the sake of profits. It is also a fact that in America, the only place that average...

• John Stossel Should Point the Finger at Himself

  Mike Ferrara | June 17, 2011 7:43 PM | 4 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Self-proclaimed “advocacy journalist” John Stossel would like us to believe that trial lawyers are damaging the country through lawsuit abuse that robs innocent companies of hard-earned...

• Industries Will Make Themselves Money, But Won’t Make Themselves Safer

  Mike Ferrara | April 18, 2011 5:25 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In almost every industry, the push for more safety regulations is met with resistance to change on the part of the people making money. A common argument is, “Our product meets all government...

• Medical Errors Are Ten Times More Common Than We Thought – 1 in 3 are Injured!

  Mike Ferrara | April 10, 2011 9:19 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  To my dismay, I’ve just read the findings of a new report released by the journal Health Affairs, which found that medical errors and adverse events in hospitals may be 10 times higher than...

• Crisis in the Health Care System Won’t Be Resolved by Reforms in the Legal System

  Mike Ferrara | March 20, 2011 7:17 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 1999, a study by the Institute of Medicine found that as many as 98,000 Americans are killed by medical errors—most of them preventable—each year. In 2000, the Journal of the American...

• Damage Caps are Just Another Big Business Power Grab

  Camryn Hansen | March 06, 2011 3:16 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Houston Chronicle published an excellent article on tort reform this week that everyone even remotely interested in the topic needs to read. Big business interests are making a concerted...